Sofia Lopez-Ibor

Sofía López-Ibor Aliño has taught music in Preschool, Elementary, Middle and High School for the past 32 years. She currently teaches Orff Schulwerk at The San Francisco School, The San San Francisco School Orff Seminar and The San Francisco Orff International Level Courses. She also teaches Pedagogy and Music Didactics at the Orff Institute from the University of Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

She has also taught Music Pedagogy at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid and in San Sebastian (Spain). She has presented workshops and classes throughout her native Spain as well as in many countries throughout the world. She has performed concerts with the Early Music Group Atrium Musicae in Spain, USA, Israel, Ireland, England, Mexico and Australia (1980-1988), and also sang in different Spanish choirs and a member of the Recorder Quartet “Syrinx” (1980-1988). She has studied various styles of World Music and is particularly interested in Balkan vocal music and Andean music. She has also collected children ́s games from all over the world and particularly from West Africa and the Spanish speaking countries.